In honour of International Women’s Day, read about three exceptional women from Victoria.
Excerpt from Her Courage Rises: 50 Trailblazing Women of British Columbia and the Yukon by Haley Healey, illustrated by Kimiko Fraser , reprinted with permission of publisher.
Isabella was born on January 10, 1808, likely near modern-day Fort Frances, Ontario. Her mother was Ojibway and her father was French and Spanish. In 1822, Isabella married Charles George Ross, a boatman for the Hudson’s Bay Company. The couple moved from Fort Frances to Fort Vancouver and then to Fort McLoughlin — a fur trade outpost on Campbell Island near modern-day Bella Bella. There, when Isabella was trading on behalf of her husband, who was away, a man pulled a knife on her son.
Hannah Maynard: Police photographer; 1834-1918 It’s 1898 and you enter a building off Johnson Street in Victoria. You walk through a shoe shop, up a staircase, and pull back a black velvet curtain. Welcome to Hannah Maynard’s Photographic Gallery. In 1887, Hannah’s career took an exciting turn. She became the first official photographer for the Victoria Police Department. Criminals of all sorts came to her studio for mug shots. Hannah cleverly used a mirror to get a full face and profile in the same shot. Hannah retired in 1912, not because she was tired, but because she wanted to give the next generation a chance. She died in 1918 and was buried in her family plot in Victoria’s Ross Bay Cemetery.
Alma got straight to work cataloguing and classifying thousands of books in the library. Although community members could access the library, Members of Legislative Assembly were the most frequent patrons. Despite her expertise and recent education, Alma wasn’t paid adequately and didn’t obtain full-time work. But she persevered. She created a system for archives to be searched using catalogue cards. Her library was the first in B.C.
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